Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 44 | Home and School League

. , : f , I Home and School League ! 4 : - j Answers to Objections to the Kindergarten Kinder-garten by Miss Rose Jones, Director of Bondergarten, University of Utah. Ill "The kindergarten makes ehil-I ehil-I drcn nervous; they want to do something some-thing different all" the time or else be entertained. " Answer If such conditions result from kindergarten training they should be charged to special cases or to the individual teacher, and not to the system. sys-tem. The good kindergarten controls and directs nerve energy. One of its aims is the gradual gain of power of application. The kindergarten in which a teacher does not dominate, in which the children chil-dren make their own problems and aro allowed freedom iu their solution, in which initiative and self-reliance are developed, will be J'rec from the dangers dan-gers of individual capriciousncss, and the children will acquire ability to amuse themselves, skill in handling material ma-terial and a power of self-control which prevents nervousness and peevishness. V "At 4 or 5 years of age children should be nothing but healthy little animals: ani-mals: it is time enough to chain them to desks and books when they are 0, or, better still, 7 years old.'' Answer The child who is only an animal at the age of 4 or 5 does not give good promise of a man in the image im-age of God. At no period of the chiVi's, life is he "nothing but a healthy little a nimal. " In considering what should j be done with him at any period, it is quite as important to recognize his ultimate ulti-mate destiny as it is to consider his animal ani-mal heredity. One can bo overstrained quite as much as the other; the kindergarten kinder-garten holds that, balanced view which gives due attention to the demands of his physical without ignoring hints of a higher life which lie iu his spontaneous spontane-ous activity. The kindergarten agrees wholly with the view that children should not be chained to desks and books at 6 years of age. ISot only does it permit great freedom of movement in its own sphere, using neither desks nor books, but its example and spirit are developing freedom from cramping desks in primary rooms everywhere. ANNOUNCEMENTS. j The next regular meeting of the Home and School league will be held in room 1 203, City and County building, on Tuesday, Tues-day, danuary 2, 4:15 p. m. G. N. Child, assistant superintendent of schools, will address the meeting on "The Coming Legislation." The Ensign Parent-Teacher association associa-tion will hold its next regular meeting on Tuesday, January 2, 3:40 p. m. J. Leo Fairbanks will speak on "Art in the home." Music will bo furnished by the school orchestra. Programme for boys' and girls' matinee mati-nee at the Paramount-Empress theater, Saturday, December 30, 10:15 a. m., will be as follows: Marguerite Clark in ' Snow-flakes. ' ' Ditmar's zoo pictures. Bobby Bump.